Zentrale wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen: Neuzugänge
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Ethnicity, marriage and family income
(2013-07)This study adds a microeconomic perspective to the discussion on ethnic diversity and economic performance in developing countries by investigating the motivation for intra-ethnicity marriage in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. ... -
Stressful integration
(2013-05)This paper considers the integration of economies as a merger of populations. The premise is that the merger of groups of people alters their social landscape and their comparators. The paper identifies the effect of the ... -
Futures commodities prices and media coverage
(2013-05)In this paper we examine the effects of media coverage of commodity prices increases and decreases on the price of the commodity and how media coverage in other commodities affects prices. We provide evidence of the ... -
How market-based water allocation can improve water use efficiency in the Aral Sea basin?
(2013-05)Increasing water demand due to population growth, irrigation expansion, industrial development, and the need for ecosystem improvements under mounting investment costs for developing new water sources calls for the efficient, ... -
A roller coaster ride: an empirical investigation of the main drivers of wheat price
(2013-02)Over the last decade, commodity prices have registered substantial booms and busts marked by extreme volatility. Wheat in particular, one of the main non-oil commodities, has registered a roller-coaster in price levels ... -
Short-term global crop acreage response to international food prices and implications of volatility
(2013-02)Understanding how producers make decisions to allot acreage among crops and how decisions about land use are affected by changes in prices and their volatility is fundamental for predicting the supply of staple crops and, ... -
International migration, human capital formation, and saving
(2013-01)In the model of Stark et al. (1997, 1998), the possibility of employment in a developed country raises the level of human capital acquired by workers in the developing country. We show that this result holds even when ... -
Back to the futures: An assessment of commodity market efficiency and forecast error drivers
(2014-09)The role of futures markets in stabilizing spot prices has been extensively discussed. Nevertheless, the ability of these markets to achieve the stabilizing function significantly depends on whether they are ‘efficient’ ... -
The impact of shocks on gender-differentiated asset dynamics in Bangladesh
(2014-07)Assets are an important means of coping with adverse events in developing countries but the role of gendered ownership is not yet fully understood. This paper investigates changes in assets owned by the household head, his ... -
Biomass productivity-based mapping of global land degradation hotspots
(2014-07)Land degradation is a global problem affecting negatively the livelihoods and food security of billions of people, especially farmers and pastoralists in the developing countries. Eradicating extreme poverty without ... -
A policy response to a downside of the integration of economies: An impossibility theorem
(2014-05)Recent research shows that the merger of economies increases aggregate stress. This paper shows that there is no income distribution policy which will ensure that the wellbeing of the individuals belonging to merging ... -
How strong do global commodity prices influence domestic food prices in developing countries?: A global price transmission and vulnerability mapping analysis
(2014-05)This paper analyzes the transmission from global commodity to domestic food prices for a large set of countries. First, a theoretical model is developed to explain price transmission for different trade regimes. Drawing ... -
Socially gainful gender quotas
(2014-05)We study the impact of gender quotas on the acquisition of human capital. We assume that individuals’ formation of human capital is influenced by the prospect of landing high-pay top positions, and that these positions are ... -
Welfare effects of vegetable commercialization: Evidence from smallhoder producers in Kenya
(2014-04)We investigate the impact of smallholder vegetable commercialization through the export and domestic market channels on household income and assets in Kenya. We use a survey panel dataset, which allows us to control for ... -
On the economics of others
(2014-03)We relate to others in two important ways: we care about others, and we care about how we fare in comparison to others. In some contexts, these two forms of relatedness interact. Caring about others can conveniently be ... -
The influence of biofuels, economic and financial factors on daily returns of commodity futures prices
(2014-02)Biofuels production has experienced rapid growth worldwide as one of several strategies to promote green energy economies. Indeed, climate change mitigation and energy security have been frequent rationales behind biofuel ... -
Smallholder Participation in the Commercialisation of Vegetables: Evidence from Kenyan Panel Data
(2014-02)This paper describes the participation of smallholders in commercial horticultural farming in Kenya and identifies constraints and critical factors that influence their decision to participate in this industry by selling ... -
Transgenic crops, production risk, and agrobiodiversity
(2014-02)Do transgenic crops cause agrobiodiversity erosion? We hypothesize that they increase productivity and reduce production risk and may therefore reduce farmer demand for onfarm varietal diversity, especially when only a few ... -
Reconciling the Rawlsian and the utilitarian approaches to the maximization of social welfare
(2014-01)Under a deadweight loss of tax and transfer, there is tension between the optimal policy choices of a Rawlsian social planner and a utilitarian social planner. However, when with a weight greater than a certain critical ... -
Comparing the global and merged with the local and separate: On a downside to the integration of regions and nations
(2015-12)This paper looks at the integration of regions and nations through the prism of the merger of populations (societies). The paper employs a particular index of social stress. Stylized examples of the merging of two populations ...
